2010 Magazine's Albums Of The Year Thread For Posting Lists and Discussion

trying to think of a clan of the cave bear joke, but i can't think of one.

so eventually we will be able to construct statistically sound strawmen?

― call all destroyer

Grand lolz, thanks.

trying to think of a clan of the cave bear joke, but i can't think of one.

haha yeah right scott.

I don't know where to put this, but did any of you check out this Japanese band 80kidz album on at least one of the lists posted or linked to on this thread (I think it was the Silent Ballet one)? It starts off electro-dribble, but it sounds more like regular "dance music" as it progresses. I'm okay with it but I have a feeling a bunch of you would like it more than I do. I think it's all instrumental. (I've only listened to the whole thing once and might have been out of the room for part of it.)

Is "electro-dribble" hyphenated?

Tokyo must be an awesome place to live.

Is "electro-dribble" hyphenated?

I hate to be all stephen's sock, but come on--new board description?

lol-- i wouldn't have suggested that one :(

just messin around ilxor...sorry

what thread is your sn from?

anyways I don't think electro(-)dribble has been a meme since 2009

don't remember-- use search function?

xp

I'm sure it will be alive & well in the EOY poll.

I don't think electro(-)dribble has been a meme since 2009

Yeah, I am probably a late adopter of it in this case.

Gallery of unfortunate band photos

http://largeup.okayplayer.com/2011/01/04/toppa-top-10-pan-caribbean-anthems-of-2010/

Deej's top 50 tracks list and top 20 albums list is excellent:

http://kingdrake1.tumblr.com/post/2679093152/david-drakes-top-50-songs-2010-1-husalah-you

Albums list: http://kingdrake1.tumblr.com/post/2676636332/david-drakes-top-20-lps-2010-1-e-40-revenue

that swedish house mafia is transcendent

Has there been much momentum behind the Jacka & Laroo record at all? Only heard it for the first time last week and loved it.

tim he put together a utube playlist upthread (tho it shld go from 1-50 imo, still cool obv)

oh nm he linked all the youtubes @ yr link :o

Christgau Dean's List (82 albums, 20 singles)

http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/The-Dean-s-List-Christgau-s-Best-of-2010/ba-p/4023

And year-end essay

http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/Live-Albums/ba-p/4025

no way is nicholas payton 23

He's saying Payton was 23 in 1997, when he made the album with Doc Cheatham (which looks about right, if Wiki is.)

does xgau usually put old stuff in his list? there's a bunch of 2009 albums there, and his #8 single is from 2006.

He often applies the Pazz & Jop "Year Of Impact" rule (so do I), when it comes to releases he connected with the year after they technically came out. Though 2006 might be pushing things. (He's pushed things more in the past, though; i.e., naming the Clash's 1982 "Rock The Casbah" his #1 single of 2001.)

yeah i get the year of impact thing, though it makes way less sense for albums. what impact did lil wayne or nicki minaj's old mixtapes have in 2010?! and the 2006 single certainly didn't have any greater impact than this year than in the four previous.

Well, it apparently had more impact on him, which it what matters, since it's his list. (Not defending the 2006 choice, which I know nothing about. But also, I don't get how "late impact" can't happen just as much with albums as with singles -- especially, say, November or December releases that wind up breaking a couple hits the following year, or barely distributed albums on tiny labels that everybody ignored the year before. Not all critics feel the compulsion to hear albums the day they come out, thank God.)

reposting this from Marathonpacks, v interesting:

The sales numbers for Pitchfork’s 2010 top 50 albums, as represented by the January 12 Soundscans (some weren’t present, of course). Erykah Badu and Hot Chip I ballparked based on the last charts they appeared on a couple months ago. Otherwise: listicle without commentary!

50 Wavves – King of the Beach (18,563)
49 Wild Nothing – Gemini (8,773)
44 Kylesa – Spiral Shadow (7,778)
43 Tame Impala – Innerspeaker (15,101)
42 Drake – Thank Me Later (1,219,473)
39 Best Coast – Crazy For You (48,296)
38 Rick Ross – Teflon Don (541,299)
35 Gorillaz – Plastic Beach (385,454)
34 Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (39,368)
33 The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt (35,524)
29 The Fresh & Onlys – Play It Strange (3,633)
28 The National – High Violet (211,615)
27 Four Tet – There Is Love in You (22,228)
26 Twin Shadow – Forget (10,985)
25 Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz (100,405)
24 Hot Chip – One Life Stand (~30k)
22 Girls – Broken Dreams Club EP (10,266)
21 The Walkmen – Lisbon (39,159)
18 Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh (~300k)
17 Caribou – Swim (33,803)
16 Sleigh Bells – Treats (94,478)
15 Robyn – Body Talk (23,869)
14 Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma (33,574)
13 No Age – Everything In Between (13,802)
12 Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid (129,152)
11 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (459,083)
10 Titus Andronicus – The Monitor (26,090)
09 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today (25,942)
08 James Blake – The Bells Sketch EP / CMYK EP / Klavierwerke EP (511/4,091/na)
07 Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me (48,754)
06 Vampire Weekend – Contra (454,914)
05 Beach House – Teen Dream (104,217)
04 Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (208,747)
03 Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest (59,879)
02 LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening (126,288)
01 Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (915,391)

some of these are genuinely sad to me! like, these are both FANTASTIC-- & i thought both had more big fans??

44 Kylesa – Spiral Shadow (7,778)
27 Four Tet – There Is Love in You (22,228)

You're seriously Kylesa and Four Tet have only sold that much?

im surprised four tet sold that much

Yeah.

Interesting to see the different brackets:

Drake/Kanye/Rick Ross >>> Arcade Fire/Vampire Weekend/Gorillaz >>> Erykah/Big Boi/National >>> LCD/Janelle/Beach House/Sleigh Bells/Sufjan >>> everyone else

I guess the Joanna Newsom album really stiffed in relation to her profile. Nothing else surprises me as much.

Are those stats US only?

Also, depending on chart rules, the Joanna Newsom might have only sold a third that many copies, surely? Doubles counting as two sales etc in the UK.

Those are US.

07 Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me (48,754)

this is surprising no matter how sales are counted, i would've expected her up there at 100,000+ with sufjan, beach house, etc.

I wouldn't have!

I still have no idea who the hell Beach House are.

Nor did I til a month ago and now it's one of my favourite records of the year. 104,217 Americans can't be wrong.

I still have no idea who the hell Beach House are.

― flutes & fucking mexican death horns (The Reverend), Thursday, January 13, 2011 3:37 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol rev we covered this earlier in this thread i think!

I just prefer thinking about Beach House as a bad Goa trance album name from 1998 on Moonshine.

I would still prefer that to the actual Beach House

lol you listen to beach house

they are good. it's crazy they sold 100 000+ copies! they seem like really great people, too. didn't listen to the new album much but devotion is an all time classic

15k in the US for Tame Impala is pretty impressive since, afaik, it still hasn't been given a domestic release (Amazon still has only the import for like $30)

Don't know if this has been posted yet:

Geoffrey Himes' Top 100 Albums of 2010

http://option-magazine.com/2011/01/01/himes-hundred-best-albums-of-2010/

awesome!